Twitch, the livestreaming platform popular with gamers, has suspended President Donald Trump’s channel for violating its rules on “hateful conduct,” making it the latest social media platform to move against him. The Amazon-owned site said Monday that two recent streams violated those policies. The first was a recent rebroadcast of Trump’s 2015 campaign kickoff speech, during which he suggested Mexican immigrants were criminals and rapists. “In line with our policies, President Trump’s channel has been issued a temporary suspension from Twitch for comments made on stream, and the offending content has been removed.”The spokesperson did not clarify the length of the suspension. The decision to suspend Trump’s account comes amid recent moves from other tech companies to take action against the president’s rhetoric online.

Source: Huffington Post June 30, 2020 00:00 UTC